recommissioned

Definitions

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v. Simple past tense and past participle of recommission.

adj. commissioned again

Etymologies

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Examples

Despite having less chance of re-entering current popular culture than The Word getting recommissioned, the beats are seemingly as big as ever at clubs across the country as Big Beat Reunion spreads its breakbeats and techno-tinged tentacles far and wide.

Other examples of inadvertent indiscretions include actor Stephen Mangan's revelation on Twitter that the drama Dirk Gently had been recommissioned and Armando Iannucci's announcement of a return of the comedy The Thick of It before the BBC was ready to make it public.

This weepie can only end in more tears – and it couldn't help but be moving – though it might need a sharper edge if the BBC hopes to draw its natural constituency away from ITV's comforting Downton Abbey (already recommissioned for a second series) these darkening Sunday nights.

Anyone who remembers Pulling, the fabulous and fabulously filthy comedy that Sharon Horgan co-wrote and starred in and which was criminally not recommissioned by some eeeediot at the BBC, might be surprised by this.

Set in rolling acres of productive farmland, remote and easily defended, it has a bio-mass boiler for heat (ie it burns wood) and has recently recommissioned its original water driven mini hydro-elecric generator.

Finally, there is a future section, dealing with the Fresh Kills Landfill on New York's Staten Island that was recommissioned to take the debris of 9/11, and how it is—movingly—being renewed as a park.